Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

The truth will lead me to all.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

If you have, give. If you learn, teach.